A week-long inquest was held in Sudbury looking into the death of Paul Rochette-Perrault and most of the 16 recommendations focus on safety measures specific to the maintenance and workings of crushing equipment.
The 36-year-old man died on April 6th, 2014 while working at Vale’s Copper Cliff smelter.
He was attempting to free a metal object called a moil (like TOIL) point, a tool used to crush ore, which had become stuck in the smelter’s ore crusher.
The inquest heard Rochette heated and softened the moil propelling the 118-lb piece of metal from the machine hitting him and two other co-workers.
Rochette died from severe head trauma.
Still with the story, Vale Canada pleaded guilty in a Sudbury courthouse, October 24th, 2016 to four of nine counts it faced following the death of Rochette.
Vale was fined $1 million and Greg Taylor, a shift supervisor, was fined $3,000.
